<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">SAN ANTONIO ? To the San Antonio Spurs, or whomever Robert Horry is playing for now, go the spoils. Like Dracula, you have to drive a stake through the Detroit Pistons' heart, but the Spurs finally did Thursday night. Tim Duncan, playing as if his reputation depended on it ? which it did ? got 25 points the hard way, on 27 shots, but he led the Spurs to an 81-74 victory in Game 7 and the NBA championship. It was the Spurs' third title since 1999, tying them with the Lakers for hegemony of the post-Chicago Bulls era. Duncan, getting the first bad press of his career after shaky performances in Games 3 through 6, wound up as the Finals most valuable player for the third time, to go with his two regular-season MVPs. "Well, you know, when you call plays, it always works better when he's out there," Coach Gregg Popovich said. "He was incredible, and he was the force that got it done." Of course, the balance of power, in the series and the millennium, was Horry, a reserve forward, who scored 15 points and made one more big three-point shot in an 8-2 burst early in the fourth quarter, breaking a 59-59 tie, as the Spurs went ahead to stay. Without Horry's dramatic shot in Game 4 of the 2002 West finals against Sacramento, the Lakers might not have won their third title in a row. Without his dramatic shot in Game 5 of this series, the Spurs might not have won this one.</div> Source
Yeah I was really suprised to, Manu probably was also. He came up big in every game and was the huge factor for the Spurs. It just seemed like TD was his right hand man.
